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VE, 1945 And Today Three years ago today the Su preme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces flashed the news to the armies to cease fire. The German High Command had capitulated and the war in Europe was over.- The time had come for the fuzzy faced kids to turn the battle over to the grey headed seers of the diplomatic army. Millions of tired veterans breath ed a sigh of relief and dreamed of home and beer, milkshakes and blondes. At first there was a lot of talk about forgotten veterans. Mem ories of the bread lines from the first world war were revived. It didn't take long for the boys to realize that the living vets would be remembered, so they setttled down to cashing government checks and doing some forgetting of their own. In brief they for got the fellows who didn't come back. The boys bought a piece of goods at Iwo and Metza. A piece of goods which hasn't been de livered and from the looks of th world situation isn't likely to be delivered. Sure he gets talked about when a guy gets enough beer in him so that he doesn't mind being called a sentimental slob. Combat diary goes to press in. the Har ry's all over the US but, when the beer wears off the memory wears thin. Wonder what some of those dog faces would say if they could come home and see what their buddies have bought for him. Do you suppose he would like our USA today where a man has to think twice before he speaks a conviction lest he .be put in the "wrong" bracket of ism. He would probably go for this business of condemning everyone who does not believe in the "right type of cne hundred percent American ism", and he would no doubt join some of the "blue blooded groups who know just the right type of people to let into the country, as immigrants. As for peace, he would know just what to do about that because he pur chased some of it himself. Sure, he had to buy it with a gun and six feet of earth but, prices are high and you don't get something for nothing. If he could speak he would probably show a little more faith in the UN and "other groups who are willing to try talking as the way to settle problems. 'He would, have some foolish notion about nations and people trying out the peace table for a change instead of killing ctl their young every generation. At any rate it 'does not matter what he think be- cause he's dead and lhank, God the dead can't talk because some body wouldn't like what they had to say worth a good damn. There's someone who can do his talking for him though and if he thinks enough of his own hide he will do it. The World War II vets seem to have forgotten pretty quickly the causes of 'the war that cost them several years of their life. They must have for gotten that Adolph Hitler made that war possible because there were enough fools who would go along with him and his ideas on race hatred, bigotery and in tollerence. Hitler got his special ism into power by making the German people fear all other isms. We. don't want to forget that little fact when the guns cut loose again because if the vets haven't got guts enough to stand up and say that they are tired of little men and little ideas then we are war bound on a jet pro pelled pogo stick. The time has come for the veterans to stand up on his hind legs and say that he is tired of war and the damn fools with super egoes who start them. The sands of time are run ning out and Atomic War I is coming closer. The vets have a duty to do and the word failure will be spelled "Greetings". So when and if the Greetings come don't look around for someone to blame it on, buddy, just take one long look in the nearest mirror. That's right, fellow, he's the cause of this damn war. Don't .let it disturb you too much though because just think, there'll be another "victory" day to cele brate when its over and you come back. C.l. Carolina Carousel Albright's Machine Pit And The Pendulum Write Away He-Men Without Beards By Patricia Clary Hollywood (UP) A group of movie heroes has ap pealed to scientists for reassur ance that they can be beardless and still be he-men. The actors read in the paper that a bald head is a sign of super-virility. Gentlemen, throw away your toupees, the authori ties said. Some were bristling with brush within a week. Others when the picture started, had to be shifted to a beardless role. (Director Ray Enright is dead set against false whisk ers.) "But I wouldn't want to twit some of those guys who could not grow the whiskers," point ed out George (Gabby) Hayes, noted for his own chin foliage. One of the men who could produce only, a bit of silky down was Robert - Bray, six-feet-two, 200 pounds, and a Marine master sergeant in the Pacific. "That makes him man enough for me," Gabby Hayes chuck led. Well, the actors want ;to know, doesn't that apply ,to downy faces too? The question came up when Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan and 12 other actors were ord ered to grow beards -for RKO Radio's "Return of the Bad men." Studio research experts .al ready have come to the rescue of the beardless actors. They pointed out that they had speci fied that some of the ruthless gunmen of history, being por trayed in the 'SReturn of the Badmen," should be beardless. Records show that some of the rough tough badmen, even during long flights or holdups away from razors, couldn't grow beards either. Such opinions, however, have not consoled Bray and his beardless pals. They wrote to authorities to get the scientific word on it. Are they, or are they not, he-men? Scientists, those big brawny guys are awaiting your answer. By R. Too Giduz "Hitched to no machine," it says ... In fact that's what several thousand of them say in big black letters . . . The al leged "non-hitchee" is of course R. Mayne Albright, the Raleigh gubernatorial challenger . . . And the allegation is the slogan-printed on the bright yel low "Albright for Governor" automobile bumper cards now fliwering out all over the state. Now Mayne is most certainly a man of his word in every way . . . (And incidentally, good buddies, this Johnson - Scott .mud -slinging is just the pre scription for Dr. Albright) . . . But we put a bunch of those bumper cards on some cars yesterday, then stood off to read them, and started won dering .... "Hmmmm, hitched to no machine ... Well then what is the gol-darned sign hitched onto?" .So mebbe Mayne is politically "machine less" but he's got some 5,000 neatly contradictory posters hitched to "machines" all over the state ! ! ! In oile case maybe it's okay . . . C. C, the only local mem ber of the Bicycle Safety Di vision of the Carolina Motor (Machine?) Club, hitched one of the sporty signs onto his velocipede yesterday . '. . There it may be "hitched to no ma chine" but it's certainly tied onto the Carousel bandwagon ! . . . Joke about it or not, but: 'Member Mayne, the man minus machine ..." . . . Hard times comin' now to "Jawbone Julia" Ross of the 'Natural Bridge Y Conference Embezzling Incident, and the famous Pi Phi House Money Machinations of recent ... Worm turned, and drastically so . . . Poppa Ross sent her $85 butter and egg money this week . . . She cashed the check, went out to study (it is alleg ed !) ... Next morning gentle "Jawbone Julia" found herself minus the whole $85 cash; and . -sez won't somebody please help little ol her find it . . . There is a reward . . . She says the . finder may keep the $85 if he . will just please return Jier $.10 purse which contained the cash . . . Sentimental value, y'know . . . Yep, that's our "Jawbone Julia." One next final appeal, la dies and gents . . . Only one more day (next Saturday) to register for voting after today . . . And precinct Democratic voters meetings are being held in town today ... So if you are a CH resident, or intend to be, don't miss out on taking a stake in the proof of your American ticket . . . WHAT'S UP in Graham Memorial The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Caroiina. Chapel Hill,' where it is published daily, except Mondays, examination and vacation periods by the Colonial Press, tine. iDuring the official summer terms, it is published semi-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Entered as second-class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription price: $8.00 per college year, S3.00 per quarter. LEASED WIRE OF UNITED PRESS Represented for National Advertising by Member National Advertising Service, Inc. 420 Madison Ave. New York, n. y. Associated Collegiate Press Editor Business Manager ED JOYNER. JR. T. E. HOLDEN Editorial Board Managing Editor . . . Chuck Hauser Sports Editors Billy Carmichael, III Bob Goldwater Associate Editors . Business Board Circulation Mgr. . . . 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NIGHT EDITOR: Charlie GibsonNIGHT SPORTS: BUI Carmichael 'Willing to try anything that might please the students, the .staff of GM is planning a "real ole mountaineer" square dance 'for Saturday night in the Ren dezvous. Arnold Wilson, manager of the .campus night spot and a ' mountaineer from way back, .will .act as caller. The square dancing is planned for the early part of the evening, with ball room dancing as usual later on. If the "swing yore honey" 'trick proves popular with the campus, square dancing will become a regular feature of the Rendezvous, Wilson says. "Tonight is just an experi ment," ,he said, "to see how the Carolina crowd takes to it." Incidentally, hope you pho tog fans won't forget about Bob Coulter's class in methods of developing. Meets this morn ing at 10:30 in the darkroom, next to the barbershop on the ground floor. MORE BRICKS A new, brick walk is now in the process of being construced .from Swain hall to Ihe West Gate, J. S! Bennett, director of operations announced yester day. He said that it would probably be ready before com mencement exercises begin. These Civil Rights By Raney Stanford It has been estimated that by this time over CO per cent of the Southern people have heard of the report of the President's Committee on civil rights, but one wonders how many of us actually know what the report says, the facts the report is based on and the recommanda tions it makes, i Too many of us are probably like Cotton-Eyed Joe who angrily dismisses the whole thing as "a bunch of dam' Yankee ;stuff (I believe that was the word he used),' I'm agin it," and let it go at that. This report was made by a 16-man group of civic leaders in accordance with. a request by President Truman to recommend legislation to correct various descriminatory practices. The group, consisting of Charles E. Wilson, Sadie T. Alexander, John B. Carey, John 'S. 'Dickey, Morris L. Ernst, Roland B. Gittelsohn, Frank P. Graham, Rev. Francis J. Haas, Charles Luck man, Francis P. Matthews, Franklin D. Roose velt, Jr., Rev. Henry Knox .Sherrill, Boris Shishkin, Dorothy Tilly, and Charming Tobias, wrote a logical concise report that has -been in the public eye more or less since .its release early in the year. , We cannot begin to show in this brief space the details and dirty corners the Committee ex plores and exposes, it is only to be hoped -that all will secure a copy of the report and see for themselves, (and we do not mean all, -interested, we mean all.) All we can hope to do is outline some of the more outstanding points in the work in an effort to give Committee Chairman Wilson the "fair hearing . . . and serious discussion" that he requests. Starting from the basic premises that "all men are brothers, and each man is his brother's keeper" the Committee has divided the -essential rights of a citizen into four categories; the right to safety and security of the person, the right to citizenship and its privileges, the right to freedom of conscience and expression, and the right to equality of opportunity. They ex plore the past record of the American people as to the treatment of peoples that .are "differ ent", present injustices, outlooks for the fu ture, and then make suggestions to safeguard the four rights mentioned. "A minority," says the Committee, "broadly defined, is a group which is treated or which regards itself as a people apart. It is-distingui-hed by cultural Or physical characteristics, or both." Breaking this definition down one comes This Changing World Common-ism" - Democracy By Bill Robertson Recently there has appeared in our country a translation of a report by Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist leader. In this report. Mao Tse-Tung makes a detailed analysis of the po litical, economic and military situation in China. We should like to quote a sentence or two from both the beginning and end in order to give the reader the "flavor" of this report which is very sweet and pleasant. The quotation from the beginning is as follows: This is a turning-point in history . . . from growth to extermination of the counter-revolutionary rule of Chiang Kai-shek . . . This is a great event . . . because it occurs in a country of 450,000,000 people, and because it occurs in the eastern "part of the world where tthere is a population totaling more'than a billion (half of mankind) suffering from the oppression of imperialism. And here is the quotation from the end of the report: All viewpoints which overestimate ithe strength of the enemy , and underestimate the strength of the people are erroneous. Together with the democratic forces of the whole world' we need only exert our efforts and we can . . . block a third world war so that it cannot , take place (emphasis ours, B. R.) .overthrow the oppression of all reactionaries, and win the vic tory of eternal peace for mankind. Now it must be admitted that this kind of talk reflecting a view of democratic optimism is pretty potent stuff. To know that there will be no third world war makes the chicken dinner taste better on Sunday! It makes the kisses in the arboretum, sweeter .'It makes life worth living! But yet it cannot be denied that this view is in direct contradiction to that of Hearst, Bullitt, Earle," and Harry S. Truman. (Perhaps the last named does not have an original view on the matter). Let us examine this contradiction. In past articles we have more, than hinted at the material basis of the ridiculous "war hys teria" in our country. (At the time this article is written there is a temporary "lull", but things may change by the time it goes to press another submarine or flying saucer may be sighted!) There is greed and fear on the part of the multi-millionaires and billionaires in America today the greed for profits (which explains high prices) and the fear of the masses of peo ple who have sweated to produce them (which explains attacks on civil liberties). No wonder cynicism and despair creeps through the atmosphere! The "greedy" and the "fearful" control the radio and newspapers and we have to listen to THEIR lamentations, to THEIR swan-songs! But the Third Party Movement is growing stronger daily. A member of the Carolina Con servative club, Mr. Paul Mullinax, has report ed that Radio Moscow calls it the Popular Front of the American people. Well, why shouldn't it be a front of workers, small farm ers, share-croppers, , small businessmen, and the oppressed Negro people against (pardon the expression) Wall Street and the Southern Bourbons? Ain't it the truth? To paraphrase the words of Will Rogers "folks who ain't saying 'ain't' these days ain't happy." This is because there are so many com mon people everywhere and if they ever take the notion to run things for themselves we would have "common-ism" (some people call it -democracy). Then the shoe-shine boys would be going to college, and we would soon find out who is too lazy to shine his own shoes! A Coke Machine For Nash to the various religious minorities the Catho lics and Jews predominating. There are cultral minorities consisting of people with different ancestral backgrounds. And then there are ra cial differences, with the largest factor here be ing the American Negro. But the Committee also points out the four million Mexicans in the United States, the 400,000 Indians, the Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans and Hispanos of New Mexico as groups often descriminated against in the various parts of the country where in they reside, groups that are often more 01 less overlooked by people working on this pro blem. In proposing legislation to correct the abuses, of what in many instances seem to be funda mental prejudices the Committee holds that the "achievement of full civil rights in law may do .as much to end prejudice as the end of prejudice may do to achieve full civil rights." And laws can remove the visible monifastations of des crimination as well as inform and educate the public. And it is up to the national government to assume the leadership in an American civil rights program "because there is much in the .field of civil rights that it is squarely respon sible for in its own direct dealings with millions of persons." The Committee lists several important act ions that can be taken legally to further the ends of their report; prominent among which are the restyling of the Civil Rights Section of the Department of Justice, the enactment of an an antilynching law, the abolition of poll taxes and other voting descriminations, removal of many citizenship handicaps, the passage of a federal Fair Employment Act. and the elimina tion of segregation. In speaking of segregation it is interesting to note the figures the Committee has gathered to show that the more different races know of each other, the less prejudice there is. "There is no adequate defense of segregation," the Committee states. They say that it is inconsis tent with American ideals, that the "seperate but equal "solution" is bunk; the races are not equal, groups have less facilities than others and are branded as inferior. And finally there is "incontrovertible evidence that an environ ment favorable to civil rights is fostered when ever groups are permitted to live and work together." Sired By A Syringe What, No Elation? By C. Renyoz "The . free choice system of mate selection no longer works well," says an 'Ohio State Uni versity Professor. "In our mobile society it brings together in marriage couples who lack common background and are incompatible." It is obvious to the thinking .person of today that the old mating system, motivated solely by an animal urge which is a hold-over from the period of man's evolution, will have to go! The man of the future, when he decides he wants an heir, will simply take down his ; male order catalogue and fill out the blank, stating size and color, and whether or not he wishes to skirt the issue. Character traits will be ra tioned, but everyone will have the opportunity to get genes with the light .brown hair. In the atomic age, there will -still be a few using the standard dodge, "He swore it was artificial respiration," but the majority of us will be singing, "It couldn't have been me!" The America of tomorrow will have a fifth freedom, and already the propaganda campaign , :has begun to prepare us for the new Emanci pation Proclamation. Freedom of Fear of Steri lization! Artificial insemination may prove the means of propagation to save the nation. If you want your yearly ration, state your name and occupation, and have your form filled out at the nearest station. (Or will they find a way to beat inflation?) Be sure to follow the regulations. This may prove the new sensa tion, but it'll sure play hell , with race rela tions, but can modern man resist temptation for the good of the whole? Anyway, it will give night baseball a new t chance to replace sex! Editor: m A . . , I am writing to express the protest and regret of the res; - ........ il. -n rdmnva jf ( ., . of Miller and Aash tians concerning n.. i a U , 11 VrT7mv. Cola dispensing macmnes irom ineie ivj ""''. "j officials. At the same time, I would like to pass along anotht : ,.;.a that has been in my mind since I saw a Coke dispenser in.stu.,. in Lenoir Hall for the workers. Certain uproar in the Write A v .... column has delayed my saying that I think Coke machines sh ! be established in each dorm. Now the five days of having a ('.... dispenser at hand has reaffirmed my conviction that they are v ;y handy to have around. Particularly were they convenient h. :... where the open living conditions prevent each person from !: ... ing his own supply. I do net know why the dispensers were taken away from th- -two places. They were self-sufficient and certainly not so di tu: bing as the vendors who come around, parading nightly thnu h the bunks and at one time into the study hall. I suppose tk.it p. i haps the profits weren't going where they should. Tins d sn t matter to us. Whoever gets the paltry profit, WE WANT THK COKE DISPENSERS BACK. It is my understanding thM C.k-; and other items are sold in the women's dorms. I do not s. 1, ,... the Coke dispensers were any more in violation of the Um ?, ! Act or any other act than the proposed dorm stores. I believe that if sufficient interest is shown in having tin- n..-,. chines installed,' or at least a reason given as to why they van n,,t be installed, we have Coca-Cola dispensers placed in every dun-.. Consider the convenience of just going down stairs and ft. ,!,:-: a nickel to a machine to get that "Pause that refreshes," and 1. 1 , keep on talking until we get dispensers or know the reason v, I, , Hope no one finds this letter "nauseating" or "contain. i. :; charges" just because Coke dispensers are red. Perhaps the "n -r color was the reason the University officials removed the d. pensers ! Paint them blue if you wish, but they are a real convcni ii e and we deserve and want them. Erie Coficld He Wants His'Back Too Dear Editor: After enduring eight months of over-crowded conditions nn 1 numerous inconveniences as a resident of Miller Hall, I was ovt i -joyed, as were my 100 roommates, at the installation of a Coke machine in Miller and Nash Halls. This was very convenient win n you consider that Miller and Nash are probably the most remote of all University housing units. No longer did we have to trudge to the Scuttlebutt for a Coke. No longer when we were studyin;: at night did we have to dress and walk uptown through the ruin to pick up a midnight snack. Instead of the half-hour break in our studies we could be refreshed and back to our studies in less th;m ten minutes. But now the University officials have taken it away, much to the sorrow of the occupants of Miller and Nash halls. If the Uni versity is afraid of the profit made by a private concern, why can't they install some of their own? The popularity of these ma chines has been proved by the fact that the machine has sold out each night. I think that ' some of the many officers we elected should investigate this situation arid act to get coke machines not only for Miller and Nash, but for all dorms. W. Norman Booker (Editor's note: According to the Purchasing department, a university regulation prohibits the putting of vending machines of any kind in Men's Dorm. The Coke machines were placed in Miller and Nash without permission or sanction of South Building and had to be removed when they were discovered. . The machines in the tWomen's dorms are placed there by the YWCA and each machine is supervised by a coed. Profits from these machines go to the "Y".) Nice Words For Carolina Ed Note: The following letter was received by Mr. Barret, faculty advisor on the Debate Council, from the two Oxford University debaters who were here in January: "Dear Prof. Barrett, "I thought that you would like to know that the following re solution was passed unanimously by the Society, at a crowded meeting held soon after our return to Oxford, and on the occasion of the Presidential debate. ' "That this House wishes to express its heartfelt appreciation and thanks to all those who extended their generous hospitality to the Union debaters during their recent visit to the U. S. A., and Canada; and looks forward eagerly to welcoming debating teams from those co tries in the near future." "Our visit to Chapel Hill, and, thanks to you, to Duke also, was one of the highlights of our tour. Best wishes and many thanks.' 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